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Maurizio Consoli |
Michelson-Morley experiments: An Enigma for Physics and the History of Science |
026589 |
2019 |
Book |
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Breakthrough Science Society |
Science in ancient India: Reality versus Myth |
026281 |
2016 |
Book |
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Susan Wise Bauer |
Story of science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory |
025984 |
2015 |
Book |
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Steven Weinberg |
To explain the world: The Discovery of Modern Science |
025926 |
2015 |
Book |
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Lisa Rezende |
Chronology of science |
023024 |
2010 |
Book |
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| 6 |
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education |
Science a human saga: An exhibition book on the history of science |
E01451 |
1998 |
Book |
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Niranjan Ghate |
Aaplya purvajanche vidnyan (Marathi) |
E01416 |
2008 |
Book |
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Biman Basu |
Science 366: A chronicle of science and technology |
E01051 |
2008 |
Book |
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| 9 |
Ray, Spangenburg |
History of science in the Eighteenth century |
E00964 |
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Book |
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Ray, Spangenburg |
History of science from 1946 to 1990s |
E00963 |
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Book |
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| Title | Michelson-Morley experiments: An Enigma for Physics and the History of Science |
| Author(s) | Maurizio Consoli;Alessandro Pluchino |
| Publication | New Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2019. |
| Description | xii, 181p. |
| Abstract Note | In 1887, Michelson and Morley tried to observe in laboratory the "ether drift" by measuring a small difference in the velocity of two perpendicular light beams. The result of their measurements, however, was much smaller than the classical prediction and interpreted as a "null result". This was crucial to stimulate the first pioneering formulations of relativity and, as such, it represents a fundamental step in the history of science. Since then, many repetitions of that original experiment have been performed with better and better sensitivity and the standard conclusion has been always the same: no genuine ether drift has ever been detected. However, in the authors' new scheme, the small irregular residuals observed in laboratory show surprising correlations with the direct observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with satellites in space. This opens the possibility of finally linking the CMB to a fundamental reference frame for relativity, with substantial implications for the interpretation of non-locality in the quantum theory. The importance of the issue would require new dedicated experimental tests and significant improvements in the data analysis. Otherwise, without such more stringent checks, these crucial experiments will remain forever as an enigma for physics and the history of science. The book illustrates the many facets of this research together with historical accounts on some leading scientists involved in these measurements. |
| ISBN,Price | 9789813278189 : $ 78.00(HB) |
| Classification | 535
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| Keyword(s) | 1. MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT
2. PHYSICS
3. SCIENCE - HISTORY
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| Item Type | Book |
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| Title | To explain the world: The Discovery of Modern Science |
| Author(s) | Steven Weinberg |
| Publication | New York, Harper Collins Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | xiv, 416p. |
| Abstract Note | In this rich, irreverent, compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we now know about the world, they did not understand what there is to be understood, or how to learn it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious apparent backward movement of the planets or the rise and fall of the tides, science eventually emerged as a modern discipline. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.
An illuminating exploration of how we have come to consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human understanding and development. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780062346650 : Rs. 1636(HB) |
| Classification | 52(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - GREEK
2. NEWTONIAN SYNTHESIS
3. PHYSICS - GREEK
4. PHYSICS - HISTORY
5. SCIENCE - HISTORY
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